3 Borrans Cottage, Burton Road, Lower Bentham, Lancaster, LA2 7EB

3 Borrans Cottage is a two-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Lower Bentham, Lancaster, Lancaster (LA2 7EB). It has a recorded floor area of 59 m² (around 635 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (July 2013) shows an E (score 47), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from July 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include outbuildings. Period features are noted in the property record.

At 59 m² it's 16.8% larger than the typical home in the postcode (51 m² median across 4 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 75% of similar EPCs). Across 1999–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 6% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £197,000 is 12.6% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£276/sq ft) was about 21.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £175,000 in February 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.